[Cornishcelt]

Bit of a long one this ... sorry

I have had this problem before but still getting no real joy ... maybe you can help?

Background: I live midway between two digital transmitters; Stockland Hill and Mendip. The Mendip signals are the more reliable but the problem is that the Humax picks up all the channals from both transmitters. The Stockland Hills progs are lited as normal, i.e. BBC1, 2, 3, 4, CH5, etc. The Mendip progs are listed in the 800 scale ... BBC1 being 801 etc.

Now, as the Mendip progs ARE much more stable why is the Humax treating them as inferior, and how the heck can I deal with it. Is there no choice than to delete the Stockland Hill progs and then rename (possible??) all the Mendip ones, one at a time?

NOTE: The Sony digiTV I am using allows me to remove the aerial, do a retune and then insert the aerial again once the onscreen 'scale' passes about 60%. If I do this on the Humax it STILL stores the progs from both transmitters! Grrr

Does anyone have any solid ideas, reasons, suggestions?

Many thanks !

[Phlog]

There's a specialist website, for Humax products, with sub-fora on all sorts of subjects, so you might like to consider posting here:
www.hummy.org.uk/invison/index.php?showforum=60
It's the Channel / Transmitter Problems forum of www.hummy.org.uk.

[Cornishcelt]

Cheers a million .... I will shoot of there this evening and give it a try.

[nvingo]

Originally Posted by Cornishcelt

Bit of a long one this ... sorry

I have had this problem before but still getting no real joy ... maybe you can help?

Background: I live midway between two digital transmitters; Stockland Hill and Mendip. The Mendip signals are the more reliable but the problem is that the Humax picks up all the channals from both transmitters. The Stockland Hills progs are lited as normal, i.e. BBC1, 2, 3, 4, CH5, etc. The Mendip progs are listed in the 800 scale ... BBC1 being 801 etc.

Now, as the Mendip progs ARE much more stable why is the Humax treating them as inferior, and how the heck can I deal with it. Is there no choice than to delete the Stockland Hill progs and then rename (possible??) all the Mendip ones, one at a time?

NOTE: The Sony digiTV I am using allows me to remove the aerial, do a retune and then insert the aerial again once the onscreen 'scale' passes about 60%. If I do this on the Humax it STILL stores the progs from both transmitters! Grrr

Does anyone have any solid ideas, reasons, suggestions?

Many thanks !

You need to manually tune in the channels for your preferred transmitter.
First remove all TV and radio channels currently stored (a defaults reset will do that, although it will also clear scheduled timers and user preferences).
The manual channel entry is Menu/Installation (pin:0000)/Manual Search.
UKFree.TV lists Mendip as 55, 56, 59, 62, 65, and 67
Their page for Stockland Hill lists 22, 25, 28, 30, 32 and 34.
These six frequencies for each transmitter carry all the Freeview TV, radio and interactive services.
It is not recommended (it may affect the reliability of accurate recording) but if you really want to you can store the regional variations from the second transmitter, ie. BBC ONE and ITV1 - these will be stored with LCN ("channel numbers") starting at 800.

The frequencies I have copied here are the "dual running" digital allocations, these are set to change after DSO at each transmitter but the linked pages list the predicted allocations too.

[big-al123]

i agree with nvingo, i had the same problem - i was picking up 2 transmitters.
i manually tuned to the one with the best signal.

just follow the instructions, took me 5 minutes to do and its perfect now.
just remember to search each of the 6 channel numbers for your preferred transmitter.

[Cornishcelt]

>>> Thanks A Million Folks <<<
I had a bash at it tonight and after about 10 minutes everything is perfect and I have lost all the overlap stuff from Stockland Hill.

Great stuff ........ thanks to everyone.